About the Erie

On lines of through travel, it is often difficult for passengers from way stations to secure accommodations in sleeping coaches. This difficulty has, in the past, been encountered by local patrons of the Erie Railway, who have been obliged to use the telegraph to request sleeping coach conductors to reserve berths for them, and even they were not always sure there would be room in through coaches when the train arrived.

To overcome this difficulty, and to afford its patrons at local stations the opportunity to reserve in advance and secure by purchase sleeping car tickets for night travel between principal line stations and New York city, the Erie company has arranged to attach to train 2 at Hornellsville at 8:15 p.m., Bath, 8:25, Corning, 9:30, Elmira, 10:05, Waverly, 10:36, Owego, 11:11, Binghamton, 11:51 p.m., and arrives at Jersey City at 6:50 a.m.

The station ticket agents at above mentioned points have been furnished with sleeping coach tickets, and certain berths have been set apart for each station, so that passengers from principal local points on the Erie Railway are now able to purchase their sleeping coach tickets in advance and thereby be sure of the accommodations desired by them.

This special sleeping coach has been attached to train No. 2 which is local to the Erie road and does not wait for western connections, and for this reason is less subject to detention than train 12 which is a through train from Cincinnati and Chicago.

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